March 29, 2010

Sarah Palin Goes to War: Go for It? Hell, Yes!

Mark Halperin, Time

Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks at a campaign rally in Mesa, Arizona, on March 27, 2010

After signing his landmark health care measure into law and restoking the fires of his presidency, Barack Obama took a victory lap in Iowa on Thursday and dared Republicans to put health care repeal at the center of their 2010 campaigns with the cheeky challenge "Go for it." Sarah Palin jumped in with both high-heeled feet and a rallying cry the equivalent of "Hell, yes!"

In Washington, many Republican leaders are now waffling and wavering over their previous aggressively negative stance on the health care bill, seeing peril in opposing the measure's more popular provisions. They are searching for a more nuanced and modulated...

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